Energy use on our Developments

Monitoring and managing energy use reduces our carbon dioxide emissions, minimises the impact of increasing energy prices and helps us to meet existing and future regulatory requirements.

As well as benchmarking the energy performance of the common (landlord-controlled) areas of our managed portfolio, we manage the energy performance of our developments.

We are also evaluating the energy performance of two development projects, Ropemaker Place and The Leadenhall Building, to indicate the likely certificate rating that would apply to the buildings when the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is implemented in the UK. As there is currently no approved methodology for calculating a certificate rating, the ratings will be based on an assessment using the likely approved methodology, by our environmental consultants Arup.

Ropemaker Place is a “major development” under the London Plan Mayor’s Energy Strategy, and so we also commissioned an Energy Review of the development. To assess alternative carbon reduction options Arup developed a life cycle approach to evaluating carbon, guided by the London Renewables Toolkit assessment methodology. The results informed the proposed design and planning application to be submitted shortly.

Next Steps

• Complete evaluation of likely certificate ratings for Ropemaker Place and The Leadenhall Building
• Evaluate the likely certificate ratings of our other property developments.

Find out about the energy and water used in the common areas of our multi-let portfolio.